Was rapper sexually assaulted while performing onstage?

Reports: Female fan performed sex act on Danny Brown during concert

An up-and-coming rapper has ignited an online firestorm after a female fan allegedly performed a sex act on him onstage during a concert last month.

Danny Brown was in the middle of a song during an April 26 concert in Minneapolis when the woman rushed onto the stage, pulled down his pants and performed the sex act, according to published reports.

Another rapper who's touring with the 32-year-old Brown said the incident was a sex assault, and she's wondering why fans are celebrating what happened instead of condemning it.

"I'm mad that a person thought it was okay to pull another person's pants down during their performance in front of about 700 other people," wrote rapper Kitty Pryde (warning: explicit language in linked item). "I'm mad that a person thought it was a good idea to perform a sex act on another person without their consent. I'm mad that nobody made her leave. I'm mad that Danny had to actually wonder what he was supposed to do at that point."

Pryde, whose real name is Kathryn Beckwith, said the incident was misinterpreted because Brown is a black man and his assailant was a white woman.

"Everyone wants the option of blaming it on Danny, because people can't accept the fact that a white girl raped a black dude in front of a bunch of people," Pryde wrote.

Pryde also said that the incident left Brown with a limited set of choices if he had not consented to the sex act.

"He would've had to either pushed her face or kicked her, and even the most gentle of either motion would immediately be labeled 'abuse' by anyone watching," Pryde wrote. "Guys pushing girls is not a good look when people are taking photos. … And if he had figured out a way to gently push the girl off him immediately without looking like he was smacking her in the face, he's faced with attacks on his masculinity by every (jerk) in the building."

Brown, a Detroit rapper who raps explicitly about sex and drug use, initially tweeted that he "didn't miss one bar" as he performed during the incident, but the Twitter posting was later deleted.

The rapper has not commented again about the incident, although he's passed along Twitter posts about it from fans and posted links to comments by Pryde.

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